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Article Book Excerpt: Secrets of Stakeholder Whispering
May 12, 2025 | By Bill Shander, author
"Stakeholder Whispering requires identifying your stakeholders," writes Bill Shander. "But it is also about making sure your stakeholders identify and recognize (and prioritize) their stakeholders." Read our exclusive excerpt...
Article Book Excerpt: How to Predict What Your Competitors Will Do
March 18, 2025 | By Ilya Trakhtenberg, L.E.K. Consulting, Stuart E. Jackson, L.E.K Consulting
Understanding your competition means predicting how they will react, write Stuart E. Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg in Predictable Winners: A Handbook for Developing, Forecasting, and Launching New Products and Services. Success requires defining your competitive set, recognizing direct and indirect competitors, and anticipating market shifts. By using competitive intelligence and...
Article Analyzing the Three-Year Rise and Fall of Corporate Innovation Efforts
February 24, 2025 | By Robyn Bolton, Founder & Chief Navigator, MileZero
The ABCs of Innovation gives you a map to make innovation last beyond the three-year mark, writes Robyn Bolton in her new book, Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide for Turning Bold Ideas into Tangible Results. The three elements, Behavior, Architecture, and Culture, must be built and nurtured in tandem to...
Article Book Excerpt: An Example of an Amazon-Style PRFAQ Doc
February 10, 2025 | By Marcelo Calbucci
Used often inside Amazon, "a PRFAQ (Press Release + Frequently Asked Question) is a framework for articulating in writing an innovation, capturing the key facts, assumptions, and hypotheses for strategic decision making," writes Marcelo Calbucci. Here's an example...
Article Start with the ABCs to Get Better Performance From Your Team
February 7, 2025 | By Paula Davis, Stress & Resilience Institute
There are three essential nutrients at the heart of thriving, intrinsic motivation, engagement, and high performance at work, writes Paula Davis in her new book. They are autonomy, belonging, and challenge. Read our exclusive excerpt.
Article How to Use a Reverse Income Statement to Assess Experiments
February 3, 2025 | By Wim Vandenhouweele
How to use a simplified version of a Reverse Income Statement to define and value the experiment's key assumption(s). Includes a downloadable spreadsheet example.
Article How SAP Created a ‘Safe Zone’ for Experiments
November 19, 2024 | By Claus von Riegen
The software giant SAP employs more than 100,000 people globally, and employees are able to test-drive new product ideas with customers, almost like startup founders. Head of Strategy Claus von Riegen explains how it works.
Article Book Excerpt: 50 Proven Innovation Methodologies and Techniques
November 4, 2024 | By Gijs van Wulfen
Using a proven methodology creates confidence and trust among those who work with it, while also lowering the barrier of risk aversion, Gijs van Wulfen writes in a new book.
Article Book Excerpt: What Makes Change Agents and Leaders Successful
October 15, 2024 | By Brian Solis
Driving true digital transformation requires empowering change agents —individuals within organizations who spot opportunities for disruption and take action, even without formal authority. Read more from author Brian Solis' new book, "Mindshift."
Article Why ‘Unlearning’ Will Matter More in the Post-AI World
September 4, 2024
Unlearning could be the highest form of learning in a post-AI world, writes Terenci Mauri in his new book "The Upside of Disruption." Read our exclusive excerpt.
Article Book Excerpt: How to Use the Innovation Targeting Matrix
July 26, 2024 | By Stephen Shapiro
To help you decide on the appropriate strategies for your activities, consider the Innovation Targeting Matrix (ITM). This framework categorizes business activities into three levels: support, core, and differentiating.
Article Why Decisions Should Be Made at the Edge
March 7, 2024 | By Brady Brim-DeForest
Most everyday decisions in large organizations should be made “at the edge,” at the level of the individual contributor or team, rather than at the level of the executive. The increased speed of decision making more than justifies the additional small-scale risk, assuming boundaries are made clear. Yes, that’s a...
Article Five Steps for Devising a Digital Roadmap
October 19, 2023 | By Hadley Thompson
Many companies start “digital transformations” that meander along and get nowhere. The new book The Digital Transformation Roadmap, by Columbia Business School professor David Rogers, serves up constructive advice about building digital skills and strategies that can respond to today’s constantly-changing environment. We talk with Rogers...
Article Book Excerpt: What Problems Can the Metaverse Actually Solve?
August 30, 2023
In this exclusive excerpt, Nokia's Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting writes about what makes new technologies successful, and lays out a case for why the Metaverse will get there.
Article New Book Explores How AI and Automation Will Reshape the Economy
May 3, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, discusses his insights on how AI could create jobs, gives use cases for AI solutions in a number of industries, and more.
Article Book Excerpt: Why I Banned the Word ‘Alignment’ on My Team
April 3, 2023 | By Atif Rafiq
Atif Rafiq, the Fortune 500's first Chief Digital Officer, shares an excerpt from his upcoming book, Decision Spring: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action.
Article A New Book from Stanford’s d.School Has a Strong Take on Generating (and Testing) Fresh Ideas
October 24, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Innovators often struggle to find the right metrics. In the new book Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric that Matters, the authors contend that “the most useful measure of creativity we’ve found is as follows: the number of novel ideas a person or group can generate around a given problem in...
Article Book Excerpt: Trust is Vital to Resilient Innovation Organizations
June 30, 2022
In the new book 6Ps of Essential Innovation, author Michael McCathren outlines how organizations can build innovation capability for the long haul. That starts with the people inside the organization. So how can you reimagine the way trust and communication work inside your organization? This excerpt from McCathren’s book will...
Article DuPont’s Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer Talks Metrics
May 26, 2022
In an excerpt from the new book Innovation Accounting, authors Dan Toma and Esther Gons talk with DuPont’s Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer about the intricacies of measuring innovation progress.
Article The 9 Myths of Measuring Innovation
April 26, 2022
In the new book Innovation Accounting, authors Dan Toma and Esther Gons lay out nine of the common innovation myths of measuring innovation.